Will of Thomas Kippes

of Canterbury, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury Vol.75 f.105, 1680
Transcribed by P G Martin
In the name of God Amen
I Thomas Kippes of the City of Canterbury gent.
Being sick in body but of good and ----- memory
And understanding God be praised calling to mind the
Uncertainty of this transitory life doo make and
Declare my last will and testament as followeth
Viz: first I commend my soul into the hands of the
Omnipotent and eternal God my Creator hoping
To obtain absolute and full pardon and ----
Remission of all my sins and to enjoy everlasting
Rest and happiness in his heavenly kingdom
Through the onely merritts death and passion
Of my most dear and only Saviour Jesus Christ.
My mortal body I remit to the earth in hope
Of a joyful Resurrection to be decently buried in
The churchyard of the parish Church of Hothfield
As near to my father and mother as may be
According to the order of Church of England
(item) as to my personal estate I dispose thereof
as followeth.

First I give and bequeath unto my
deare and loving friend John Bayle in whose
house I now dwell all the furniture of the
chamber in which I now lye and also the -----
standing in his hall excepting all my books and
such pictures and such other ----- furnitures as the
the said John Bayle and my executors hereafter
named shall think fitt to send and sell by for the
use of Frances Honyfeild sole daughter of my nephew
Gabriel Honyfeild Dr in Phisicks late ----- to be
Kept for her use by my executors and to be delivered
To her when she shall attain her age of sixteen
Years.

Item. I give unto the said John Bayle &
Elizabeth his wife the sum of ten pounds &
Paid to by each of them a piece of plate or some
Other things in remembrance of me.

Item: I give Unto Thomas Turner of Grayes Inn Esq. My
Kinsman all my law books.
Item: I give unto Mr Henry Gibbs of Canterbury my books of
Taile ----- and prints---------------cost
and Residue of my goods and movables what soever
After debts legacies and funeral charges
Shall be paid I give and bequeath unto the
Said Frances Honyfeild to be delivered to her at
Her age aforesaid.

Item: I give and bequeath unto
Thomas, Elizabeth, Frances and Mary Ladd children
Of Richard Ladd of Westwell the sum of twenty
Pounds a piece to be put out at interest for them
By my executors and to be paid when they shall
Respectively attaine the severall ages of
One and twenty yeares and if any of them then
Shall happen to dye before they shall attain
The said age then the portion of him her or them
Soe dying shall be devided betweene the
Survivours .

Item: I give unto Francis (Oners?) a
Shomaker dwelling in or near Fleet Street &
Sometimes my servant the sum of (tenn?) pounds
Item: I give the sum of (tenne?) pounds a piece
To (seaven?) honest poore men’s sonnes that are
Inhabiting and borne within the parishes of
Hothfield, Great Chart, Eastwell, Wye, Boughton
Aluph and Milton next Sittingbourne of each
Parish and to bind them and apprentice further
Poore men’s sonnes to be nominated by the
Parson and the Churchwardens of the said
Respective parishes and to be made –ite of by
My executors hereafter hereafter named.

Item: I Give unto James Hide Esq. Youngest sonne of
The late Lord Chancellor Hide the summe of ---- of
One hundred pounds.
Item: I give unto William Shaw Esq. One of the Grooms of the Queen’s privie
Chambers the summe of one hundred pounds
all Whith said legacies in money soe by me bequeathed
I will shall be paid by my Executors within three Years next after my decease
Item: I give unto Every one of my Godsonnes the summe of twenty Shillings a piece
Item: I give unto Richard Snode of (Westwell?) the summe of five pounds.

This Is the last will and testament of me the said
Thomas Kippes concerning the disposition of all
My messuages, lands and premises
Situate lying and being in the county of Kent
Which I dispose of as followeth.
Impremis I give And bequeath my messuage with –happustences (appurtenances?)
Called (Nymplate?) now in the occupation of Mr.
George Moore with all the lands there unto
-----ging lying in Great Chart aforesaid ------
also one messuage Appurtances lying in
(Charte Street?) in the occupation of Mr Stephen Stanton
and my lands in the said parish called (Chill?)
marsh in the occupation of Mr Stephen Maytham
unto the said Frances Honyfeild and her
assignes for and during the terme of her
natural life and from and after her decease to
the use of the heirs of the body of the said Frances
lawfully to be begotten and their heirs and for
default of such heirs I give those messuages, lands
and premises unto the said Richard Ladde and
Mary his wife for and during the terms of
Their natural lifes and the life of the longest
Liver of them and from and after their decease
I give the same unto Thomas Ladde their
Sonne his heirs and Assignes for ever.

Item: I give and devise unto the use of the poore of
The seaven parishes aforesaid the summe of
Twenty shillings a piece to each parish to be
Paid yearly for ever at the feast of the
Birth of our Lord Christ into the hands of the
Overseer of the respective parishes and to be
---nding and going out of the said tenement
in Charte Street and the lands called Hillma-e
and in default of payment within seaven
dayes to enter and destraine for the same or to
enter and hold the possession of the said
messuage and lands until the same and all
arrears shall be paid for the use of the poore
as aforesaid .

Item: I give and bequeath five pounds. I give to the wife of Mr Thomas
Smith of Smeeth the summe of twenty pounds
And to her four children five pounds a piece To be paid as above.
Item: whereas I have above Appointed the profits of my lands to --------
By my executors for three yeares I doo alter my
Mind thereon and devise the same profits to
Them for four yeares in regard of the additional
Legacies hereby given.

Item: I make ------- The above named Dr John Bale and John
Whitfield of the City of Canterbury gent. my
executors of this my last will and testament
and give to each of them twenty pounds -----
for their care and paines and I doo revoke all
former wills and make this my last will and
testament this sixteenth day of October -----
----- 1680. In witness whereof I have hereunto
sett my hand and seals the same day & yeare
Thomas Kippes. Read signed sealed published and
To be the last will and testament of the said Thomas
Kipppes in the presence of Thomas Carlile Francis Lo------- Ro--- Bargrave